On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 12:51 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Phil Blundell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 22:17 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> >> -pipe does speed up build time so its an optimization.
> >
> > How much does it really speed it up by?  I seem to recall the effect was
> > fairly negligible, but maybe I am remembering that wrong.
> 
> it does not create files for intermediate objects so if you have slow
> media it can be significant
> but if you have SSDs then it might be diminished.

The files go in /tmp though, right?  Even if that isn't a tmpfs, which I
think it is on almost all systems nowadays, they will almost certainly
just sit in the buffer cache and never actually get written to the
disk. 

p.


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